Hexton is a village and rural area in the
Gisborne District
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of New Zealand's
North Island
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. It is located north-west of Gisborne City,
and includes the settlements of Makauri and Waerengaahika.
The fertile plain east of the
Waipaoa River
The Waipaoa River is a river of the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. It rises on the eastern slopes of the Raukumara Range, flowing south for to reach Poverty Bay and the Pacific Ocean just south of Gisborne. For about half of this d ...
was settled by the 19th century by families of
Hampshire
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in southern England, with assistance from the
New Zealand Government
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. The de Latour family named the area after their English village of
Hexton
Hexton is a small village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, about west of Hitchin.
This parish is a salient of Hertfordshire jutting northwards into Bedfordshire. The southern half of the parish is part of the chalky downs of the ...
.
The Chitty Family began growing wine in the area during the 1930s and 1940s, becoming one of three dominant families in Gisborne's early wine industry.
Demographics
Hexton is in three SA1 statistical areas which cover .
The SA1 areas are part of the Hexton statistical area.
The SA1 areas had a population of 594 at the
2018 New Zealand census
Eighteen or 18 may refer to:
* 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19
* one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018
Film, television and entertainment
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, an increase of 96 people (19.3%) since the
2013 census, and an increase of 204 people (52.3%) since the
2006 census
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In mathematics
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. There were 198 households, comprising 291 males and 303 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.96 males per female, with 123 people (20.7%) aged under 15 years, 99 (16.7%) aged 15 to 29, 273 (46.0%) aged 30 to 64, and 99 (16.7%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 93.9% European/
Pākehā
Pākehā (or Pakeha; ; ) is a Māori term for New Zealanders primarily of European descent. Pākehā is not a legal concept and has no definition under New Zealand law. The term can apply to fair-skinned persons, or to any non-Māori New Ze ...
, 13.1%
Māori
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* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
* Māori culture
* Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the C ...
, 0.5%
Pacific peoples, 0.5%
Asian
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* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
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, and 1.5% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 54.0% had no religion, 35.9% were
Christian
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, 0.5% had
Māori religious beliefs, 0.5% were
Buddhist
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and 0.5% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 81 (17.2%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 69 (14.6%) people had no formal qualifications. 99 people (21.0%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 258 (54.8%) people were employed full-time, 111 (23.6%) were part-time, and 12 (2.5%) were unemployed.
Hexton statistical area
Hexton statistical area, which also includes
Waihirere
Waihirere is a settlement and rural area in the Gisborne District of New Zealand's North Island. It is located 16 kilometres inland from the coastal city of Gisborne.
The settlement is a stronghold for kapa haka, and is where prominent performer ...
, covers
and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km
2.
Hexton statistical area had a population of 2,946 at the
2018 New Zealand census
Eighteen or 18 may refer to:
* 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19
* one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018
Film, television and entertainment
* ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the sho ...
, an increase of 258 people (9.6%) since the
2013 census, and an increase of 450 people (18.0%) since the
2006 census
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number.
In mathematics
Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...
. There were 1,035 households, comprising 1,506 males and 1,440 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.05 males per female. The median age was 44.2 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 615 people (20.9%) aged under 15 years, 441 (15.0%) aged 15 to 29, 1,413 (48.0%) aged 30 to 64, and 477 (16.2%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 85.4% European/
Pākehā
Pākehā (or Pakeha; ; ) is a Māori term for New Zealanders primarily of European descent. Pākehā is not a legal concept and has no definition under New Zealand law. The term can apply to fair-skinned persons, or to any non-Māori New Ze ...
, 21.8%
Māori
Māori or Maori can refer to:
Relating to the Māori people
* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
* Māori culture
* Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the C ...
, 1.5%
Pacific peoples, 1.9%
Asian
Asian may refer to:
* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...
, and 2.0% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
The percentage of people born overseas was 10.9, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 51.1% had no religion, 38.5% were
Christian
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, 1.4% had
Māori religious beliefs, 0.1% were
Muslim
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, 0.2% were
Buddhist
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and 1.0% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 438 (18.8%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 405 (17.4%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $37,500, compared with $31,800 nationally. 492 people (21.1%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 1,281 (55.0%) people were employed full-time, 477 (20.5%) were part-time, and 42 (1.8%) were unemployed.
Marae
Tarere Marae and Te Aotipu meeting house is a meeting place of the hapū of
Te Whānau a Iwi.
Education
Makauri School is a Year 1–6 co-educational public primary school
with a roll of as of
References
{{Gisborne District
Populated places in the Gisborne District